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Author: Maggie Galehouse

The author of eight books, including the National Book Award-winning “Let the Great World Spin” (2009), Colum McCann returns to Ireland in his latest novel, “TransAtlantic,” an alternative Irish history that places big, historical moments alongside smaller moments no less significant to the characters who survive them. He appears in Houston on Monday. …

Mitch Albom is a journalist, screenwriter, playwright, radio and television broadcaster, musician and best-selling author of several books including “Tuesdays With Morrie.” He appears on closing night …

Last month, Canada’s Alice Munro, 82, became the 13th woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. A master of the short story, Munro writes mostly about life in southwestern Ontario. She has honed her …

Hans and Margret Rey, the creators of Curious George, escaped from France in 1940. The following year, the first Curious George book was published. On Friday, the Holocaust Museum Houston unveils “The Wartime Escape: Margret and H.A. Rey’s Journey From France,” an exhibit about the Reys’ dramatic flight from Europe. …